Seawrightspostgame wrote: Arguing against post players says more about you than it does the nba.
Also this:
Lebron is not a typical post player, he's not a typical anything. He can do anything he wants on a basketball court at any time. It's not useful to use him as an example.Seawrightspostgame wrote:Lebron only won titles when he polished his post up game.
Agree with some of this, but they are supremely talented players who can score in a variety of ways, having the threat of posting up makes their other methods more effective. Initiating offense and using the high-post as a place from where you direct plays and run cuts and screens is great. However, having an offense where a major component of it is predicated on a post player "backing down" his man one-on-one is not efficient and is being moved away from because of that fact at all levels of basketball (unless as earlier mentioned you happen to have one of the five best players in the world with this particular skill set on your roster)Seawrightspostgame wrote:Granted a lot of guys do a lot from the 3 point line or in transition but there is an incredible amount of guys that post up on the block, the elbow or the 15 foot wing. Hell even D wade gets most baskets in the post up. Kobe posts up. I would say that posting up is simply initiating offense from 15 feet and in with your back to the basket. Doesn't have to be shaq. Hakeem shot the ball fading out of bounds from 15 feet on a spin. THAT IS A POST UP. HE is considered one of the greatest.
Thanks for your post rj, agreed with pretty much everything you said.